Left Google

(cont'd from Dec. 9 post, "Anti-trust 2")

Google is not only under scrutiny from the U.S. Congress, but from some of its own employees. At least four whistleblowers have departed Google recently.

Last year one of them published his story in a British newspaper. Enthusiastic at first about a project he worked on to use artificial intelligence to drive medical advance, he gradually became less so. Eventually his conscience compelled him to reveal that Google was gathering data about millions of Americans -- with the consent of neither the patients nor the doctors, probably breaking the law.

Just weeks ago Dr. Timnit Gebru, an AI ethics researcher, was surprisingly terminated at Google. She had written a paper that seemed to say Google's AI research wasn't doing enough to avoid discrimination, fake news, and more.

Issues are mounting. Will Congress break up Google, as Congressman Cicilline recommends?